Anyway, this guy have been with us for several years, loved his work and he knew our process of handling business.

Ozzy,as mentioned above look for reputable hard money lenders in your own area and many lenders offer what Norris group does. at the end of the day with any investment you want to be very low risk and high margin.Most people look at real estate as high risk, high reward and I am very anti that, with every investment comes risk, now it all depends how you want to handle that risk, either by pass it(don't even invest into it) or simply minimize it by making sure its very low risk.Real estate investments are NOT passive at all unless you just hand over your money to someone and let them do every thing and make sure they pay you back plus interest and there is recourse, you also want to look into as if you ever needed to liquidate how fast can you be out and how much control can you have over it.

The tenant/landlord relationship need to be "handled" from the very begging.

They normally get 7-12% of your rent but its well worth it if they handle collecting rent, leasing out, tenant issues, advertising, general maintenance, repairs and improvements.

A good capital raise firm handles all investor intake for you.

The quickest way to get out of this jam is hire an experienced property manager which normally cost 7-10% of your monthly rent and let them handle the legal garbage.

Hi Mark -The reason the Seller would want the credit to go through escrow is so he allows them to handle the monetary transaction.

I feel I have a handle on the demographics here and can therefore derisk myself some.

We didn't charge app fee for them because my wife handled them (Spanish speakers) and messed up.

You need to be able to handle market swings.